Exopolysaccharides in plant-bacterial interactions

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue , 1992, Pages 307-346

  Leigh, John A ^a   Coplin, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capsular polysaccharide; extracellular polysaccharide; plant pathogen; Rhizobium; root nodule

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0026658863     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.mi.46.100192.001515     Document Type: Review

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